Our Campus

St. Michael’s School is situated on a three-acre campus in east-central Tucson. A true marriage of old and new, the school encompasses 21 classrooms built around four traditional Spanish courtyards ornamented with fountains and native plantings.

Famed Swiss-born architect Josias T. Joesler designed the original church and rectory in a Pueblo Revival style, relying entirely on mud-adobe and timber construction. Over the years, a number of improvements and expansions—carefully adapted to Joesler’s original vision—have been made to the physical plant to accommodate the School’s growing enrollment. The additions of dedicated spaces for fine arts, music, science, and technology, as well as new sixth grade classrooms, are just some of the recent facility improvements. Other features of our remarkable campus include:

       • a high-tech computer lab with 26 work stations, color printing,
          and Web access

       • wireless and/or desktop Internet access in every classroom

       • a climate-controlled, state-of-the-art student center/gymnasium,
         anchored by four giant cisterns which harvest 54,400 gallons of
         water annually for the campus’s beautiful xeriscape landscaping

       • a wetlands area for scientific observation, artistic inspiration, and quiet reflection

       • state of the art SmartBoard technology in virtually all classrooms to allow teachers to integrate web/media 
         based learning for an enhanced curriculum

For many, however, the heart and soul of the school is still our beautiful chapel, where light filtering through majestic stained-glass windows and grandiose tones echoing from our Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ bestow peace and wonderment on young worshippers.